Betna is a village in

Heim Municipality Heim is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It was established on 1 January 2020 upon the merger of three other municipalities. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district ...

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. It lies at the southeast end of the

Skålvik Fjord / or is an arm of the Vinje Fjord in Heim Municipality in Trøndelag County, Norway. It is located in the traditional Nordmøre district (it was part of Møre og Romsdal county prior to 2020). The fjord extends southwards to the village of ...

(), where the Betna River () empties into Betna Bay (). The village lies along the

European route E39 European route E39 is the designation of a north–south road in Norway and Denmark from Klett, just south of Trondheim (city), Trondheim, to Aalborg via Bergen, Stavanger and Kristiansand. In total, there are nine ferries, more than any other ...

highway, about east of the village of

Halsa Halsa may refer to: Places * Halsa Municipality, a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway * Halsa, Trøndelag, a village in Heim Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway ** Halsa Church, a church in Heim Municipality in Trøndelag ...

. The name ''Betna'' is derived from the verb which means 'to graze'. The Blekken Elementary School is located in Betna. There used to be a convenience store in the settlement, but it went out of business in 2004. Traces of an

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settlement were discovered in Betna during roadwork on the junction of

with County Road 65. The Museum of Natural History and Archaeology in

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; ), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros, and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2022, it had a population of 212,660. Trondheim is the third most populous municipality in Norway, and is ...

carried out archaeological investigations at the site in the summer of 2006.

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